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 * FileService.java
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package com.googlecode.attention.shell.services;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.googlecode.attention.util.ThreadTerminator;


import static com.googlecode.attention.shell.ShellLogStatements.*;

/**
 * File service, handles file I/O tasks.
 *
 * @author Stein Gunnar Bakkeby
 */
public class FileService implements Service {

  /**
   * Constructor, creates the file service.
   * 
   * @param terminator Indicates when this service should terminate
   */
  public FileService(final ThreadTerminator<?> terminator) {    
  }
  
  /**
   * This method will write the content of the given ArrayList to a file with
   * a given file name.
   * 
   * @param fileName The name of the file to write to
   * @param buffer The ArrayList containing the content to write
   * @return True if the file was successfully written, false if IOException
   */
  public boolean writeToFile(final String fileName, final ArrayList<?> buffer) {
    try {
      final PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(
          new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fileName)));
      for(int i=0; i < buffer.size(); i++) {
        writer.println(buffer.get(i).toString());
      }
      writer.close();
      return true;
    } catch (IOException e) {
      SHELL_003.log(e);
      return false;
    }
  }
  
  public void run() {
    
  } 
}